Posted on 12/10/2013 6:24:00 PM PST by Nachum
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed classified information at a 2011 awards ceremony attended by Zero Dark Thirty filmmaker Mark Boal, according to documents obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.
The CIA allowed Boal, the screenwriter of Zero Dark Thirty, to attend a June 24, 2011 award ceremony celebrating the successful raid on Osama bin Ladens hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan that May.
A transcript of Panettas speech that night obtained by Judicial Watch is labeled top secret, and significant portions of it are redacted.
At the conclusion his speech, Panetta told the audience, You have made me proud of the CIA family. And you have made me proud as an Italian to know that bin Laden sleeps with the fishes.
An internal review of the ceremony written by the CIA Office of Security (OS) concluded that the Agencys Security policy and administrative procedures were not followed in allowing Mr. Boal, a member of the media, access to the classified Bin Laden Operation Award Ceremony.
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Actionable, if only we had a republican vertebrate.
His son, James, is a Navy Intel reservist.
Leon let his son’s colleagues DIE.
Leon’s just being Leon, right?
Sloppy, that’s all! Leon’s just sloppy!
I hate people who divulge classified national security information. I hate them to the depths of their black little souls.
I swore an oath to protect the information that was revealed to me in the performance of my duties, and I will carry those secrets to the grave.
I told you, now I’ll have to shoot you!!!
The CIA allowed Boal, the screenwriter of Zero Dark Thirty, to attend a June 24, 2011 award ceremony celebrating the successful raid on Osama bin Ladens hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan that May... You have made me proud of the CIA family. And you have made me proud as an Italian to know that bin Laden sleeps with the fishes."
Not my job - hold that thought while I go fetch a marine.
Seriously, those guys don’t screw around.
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